A study of an influential modern philosophical movement, including such philosophers and writers as Dostoevski, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jaspers, Camus, Sartre, and Buber. Includes an analysis of the influence of this movement on contemporary deconstructionism and post modernism.

VII. Required Course Content and Direction

Learning Goals:

To develop an understanding of the Existentialist Movement in Philosophy; ho it arose as a reaction to Rationalism and Hegelian System-building

To gain a perspective of 19th and 20th century philosophy; how the existentialists open the way for recent trends such as Deconstructionism and Post-Modernism

To see how it is possible to bring together reason and emotion, logic and poetry, discourse and fiction to express ideas

To understand differences in philosophical outlook between Continental Europe on the one hand, and the United States and Britain on the other